“Men at the close of the dark Ages may have been rude and unlettered and unlearned in everything but wars with heathen tribes, more barbarous than themselves, but they were clean. They were like children; the first beginnings of their… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying historturer but not of keeping his temper. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed atall. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We do not merely love ourselves more than we love duty; we actually love ourselves more than we love joy.” — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A liberal is a noble and indispensable lunatic who tries to make a cosmos of his own head.” — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall; I tie the noose on in a knowing way As… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Bigotry consists in a man being convinced that another man must be wrong in everything, because he is wrong in a particular belief; that… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
The man who throws a bombis an artist, because he prefersa great moment to everything. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Men at the close of the dark Ages may have been rude and unlettered and unlearned in everything but wars with heathen tribes, more… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nature centres into balls, And her proud ephemerals, Fast to surface and outside, Scan the profile of the sphere; Knew they what that signified,… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
